Do Cornell, Dartmouth, WashU and UChicago alums ever go back to campus after graduating?

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

what's the "major" airport for UVA?

Uh Charlottesville

That’s not a major airport.

Why are you such a dick? Are you a rival Virginia tech student? Charlottesville airport handles 400k passengers a year. I use it monthly. You can get connect anywhere from it. It’s what UVA students use if not the train (I’ve actually witnessed some posters not know that a train services UVA -or they prefer to heckle first and learn later). I connect to UNC regularly or Atlanta. You want MAJOR? Drive 60 minutes to Richmond. You want more? Two hours to National or Dulles. You can also. Easily train to DC. I lived in So Cal for 25 years. You couldn’t pay me to use LAX again. You can’t get anywhere from that MAJOR airport. My Slac out there might be 13 miles as the crow flies but it’s two hours by cab. So I never return

Ok. It’s a MAJOR airport.

Just stop. You add nothing to the post by your comments. Does this make you feel momentarily better? Happier with your lot in life? That we have to waste our time reading your snark? You are not being witty or funny and you waste time. Go to Reddit

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

what's the "major" airport for UVA?

Uh Charlottesville

That’s not a major airport.

oh look, UVA hater is back and this time... it's the lack of a "major" airport. Bless your heart sweetie.

UVA is fine. But I wouldn’t call the airport in Charlottesville “major”. YMMV.

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

what's the "major" airport for UVA?

Uh Charlottesville

That’s not a major airport.

Why are you such a dick? Are you a rival Virginia tech student? Charlottesville airport handles 400k passengers a year. I use it monthly. You can get connect anywhere from it. It’s what UVA students use if not the train (I’ve actually witnessed some posters not know that a train services UVA -or they prefer to heckle first and learn later). I connect to UNC regularly or Atlanta. You want MAJOR? Drive 60 minutes to Richmond. You want more? Two hours to National or Dulles. You can also. Easily train to DC. I lived in So Cal for 25 years. You couldn’t pay me to use LAX again. You can’t get anywhere from that MAJOR airport. My Slac out there might be 13 miles as the crow flies but it’s two hours by cab. So I never return

Ok. It’s a MAJOR airport.

Just stop. You add nothing to the post by your comments. Does this make you feel momentarily better? Happier with your lot in life? That we have to waste our time reading your snark? You are not being witty or funny and you waste time. Go to Reddit

I’m sorry you are triggered by the size of CHO.

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

what's the "major" airport for UVA?

UVA has D1 sports and Greek life.

So does Dartmouth and Cornell.

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

Pretty sure that UChicago has a major airport nearby. WashU also has an airport close by.

Most UChicago and WashU graduates are on the coasts. And no sports. What would motivate someone on the coasts to randomly want to go visit south side Chicago or St Louis? I mean let’s be for real. It’s quite a hike! And it’s not the Michigan or Notre Dame football team.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago is one of the best cities in USA with so much to do.
I live in the east coast and I look for any excuse to to spend few days in Chicago when I can.
Lots of our conversations are held in Chicago

Don’t bother. OP thinks D1 sports and Greek life are all that matters 🤣🤣🤣

UChicago alums in New York and Seattle are taking long flights into O’hare….taking an 80 minute cab to dangerous south side Chicago…. to watch a d3 football game on a grey Chicago fall day and then go……eat some nasty Harold’s chicken? What a weekend!

I doubt that is happening with any sort of frequency.

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Cornelian here. I’ve gone back for reunions, though Covid wrecked the recent ones. When we lived in Boston I went to the Harvard-Cornell hockey games. I’m thinking about the Cornell hockey game in MSG over Thanksgiving this year as we’ll be in the area.

It’s not the biggest deal in our lives, but it’s a nice option to have, I suppose. I wouldn’t base a decision about college around that sort of thing though.

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

what's the "major" airport for UVA?

Uh Charlottesville

That’s not a major airport.

Why are you such a dick? Are you a rival Virginia tech student? Charlottesville airport handles 400k passengers a year. I use it monthly. You can get connect anywhere from it. It’s what UVA students use if not the train (I’ve actually witnessed some posters not know that a train services UVA -or they prefer to heckle first and learn later). I connect to UNC regularly or Atlanta. You want MAJOR? Drive 60 minutes to Richmond. You want more? Two hours to National or Dulles. You can also. Easily train to DC. I lived in So Cal for 25 years. You couldn’t pay me to use LAX again. You can’t get anywhere from that MAJOR airport. My Slac out there might be 13 miles as the crow flies but it’s two hours by cab. So I never return

Ok. It’s a MAJOR airport.

Just stop. You add nothing to the post by your comments. Does this make you feel momentarily better? Happier with your lot in life? That we have to waste our time reading your snark? You are not being witty or funny and you waste time. Go to Reddit

I’m sorry you are triggered by the size of CHO.

NP but I didn't even realize Charlottesville had an airport!

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago is one of the best cities in USA with so much to do.
I live in the east coast and I look for any excuse to to spend few days in Chicago when I can.
Lots of our conversations are held in Chicago

Don’t bother. OP thinks D1 sports and Greek life are all that matters 🤣🤣🤣

UChicago alums in New York and Seattle are taking long flights into O’hare….taking an 80 minute cab to dangerous south side Chicago…. to watch a d3 football game on a grey Chicago fall day and then go……eat some nasty Harold’s chicken? What a weekend!

I doubt that is happening with any sort of frequency.

I’ve got some news for you: college sports isn’t everything. Also, Chicago is an awesome city.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago is one of the best cities in USA with so much to do.
I live in the east coast and I look for any excuse to to spend few days in Chicago when I can.
Lots of our conversations are held in Chicago

Don’t bother. OP thinks D1 sports and Greek life are all that matters 🤣🤣🤣

UChicago alums in New York and Seattle are taking long flights into O’hare….taking an 80 minute cab to dangerous south side Chicago…. to watch a d3 football game on a grey Chicago fall day and then go……eat some nasty Harold’s chicken? What a weekend!

I doubt that is happening with any sort of frequency.

I’ve got some news for you: college sports isn’t everything. Also, Chicago is an awesome city.

D1 sports and Greek life are in fact the two best ways to keep alums engaged with campus.

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Anonymous wrote:I only went to grad school at Dartmouth and I love going back to Hanover. We are there every couple of years. Dartmouth is also very big on reunions.

I almost didn't include Dartmouth because I felt like I had heard similar from a Dartmouth alum I knew. Almost cultish in how they love their college and going back.

+1000

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I think Dartmouth alums go back pretty frequently - people love that school. Most UChicago alums I know still have college friends but don't speak fondly of their experience. Cornell seems pretty 50/50 positive vs. negative. Don't have enough first hand knowledge to comment on WashU.

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Dartmouth with a Dartmouth DH. We went back lots when we were in our 20s. Now he occasionally goes back for recruiting stuff but I don’t- too far now that we live on the west coast. I don’t want to take a connecting flight to Manchester or drive in the dark for hours from Boston.

I think I care less about that part of my life how that I’m in my 40s. My 22 year old self would be shocked but I’ve added so many new layers to my life since college that it isn’t the end-all, be-all it once was.

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I mean, I went to a D1 school near a major airport and I never go back… I didn’t realize this was a thing?

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I hope they have some top-notch air traffic controllers in Charlottesville. Sounds like the sky is just crazy with aircraft carrying more than a thousand people per day in & out. I bet those hicks in Chicago wish they had a big airport like that.